International Women’s Day

Recently in Hawaii your eagle-eyed correspondent discovered on a wall in a humble abode this ironic (iconic?) reference to a … More

Rainbow Warrior: Lunch with Spies

John Menadue (Qantas boss at the time) recently posted online a memoir vignette of my brush with infamous French secret … More

The mind-bending Trumpian world operates in a bulletproof moral and factual vacuum, which has made sarcasm and irony, my tools … More

Tim Cope is an Australian adventurer who made a remarkable solo trip by horseback from Mongolia to Hungary over a … More

Enzed is a great little country, full of civic-minded folk. By the way, little is good. It’s a pity they … More

Recently while on assignment in Berlin your KC correspondent tip-toed in his father’s footsteps at Olympia-Stadion, the site of Hitler’s … More

Nicely alliterative headline, but news from La Belle France is disturbing. French Mayors with local beaches have decided to ban … More

The sorry saga of Australia’s offshore asylum seeker gulag is not just about bringing suffering and hopelessness to those in … More

The Indonesian government is implementing a ban on the export of some raw mineral ores, particularly nickel and bauxite, to … More

Pope Francis has released a ‘papal exhortation’ of 223 pages of critique on modern life and capitalism. What a contrast … More